A photo project that you enjoyed?

[BradS]

What photo project have you enjoyed doing? (or found challenging, stimulating, etc...)

what are/were the parameters / guidelines of the project?

extra credit for a link to the project or post some photos from it


Thanks in Advance.

 

[Pieter12]

I'll jump in. I have an ongoing project I have been working on for the last few years called "Synchronicity." Synchronicity is a concept which holds that events are "meaningful coincidences" if they occur with no causal relationship yet seem to be meaningfully related.

It consists of pairs of photos that I match up according to similar patterns, shapes and dynamics. The challenge and enjoyment of this project is that there are no parameters beyond shooting the images on black-and-white film and making darkroom prints. The cohesion of the project is my personal aesthetic. The photos are not taken with anything other in mind than what pleases my eye. Upon viewing the prints, I find visual connections and pair them up. None of the photos are taken to directly connect or mirror another, they just happen to link up in my eye and mind. There is a mix of street, nature, and studio table-top still life. Almost all of it to date has been shot medium format, a couple of 35mm images.

The online edition of Dodho magazine just published a feature on it: Synchronicity or The Choreography of Chance by Pieter de Koninck and it is also on my website where I add to as I find new pairs. https://pdekoninck.cargo.site

Unfortunately, beyond Dodho, this project has not gotten much traction out there. Maybe too intellectual, hard to categorize, not what's in at the moment.

 

[removed account4]

Hi BradS
I don't have many pix but
its a project that i have been doing for a long while
photographing randoms and people at work. my last installments were
people working AND customers at a local store
i've used everything from digi+my phone to 5x7 to shoot these ...
its not too heavy or difficult to understand, its just respectful portraits of regular people ...

 

[rayonline_nz]

Something I guess so I don't waste film and I have meaningful shots.

I googled here where I live, the most instagrammed shots. So with my Hassie, 12 shots, I shot 1 distinguished location 1 image and did this with 12 locations. So I have a portfolio with a single roll.

 

[wiltw]

I belonged to a group of photographers who had become longtime friends over the years. We had a Holiday Photo Exchange, where each participant would pick one photo, and send a copy of that photo to all of the other Holiday Exchange participants. It was such a thrill to take a transparency and make almost 30 prints on Cibachrome paper in my home darkroom, and have all copies virtually indistinguishable from one another in spite of being printed in 3 or 4 different darkroom sessions, as it was such an indication of consistency in perfect control over the color printing and chemical process! And do that year after year. That thrill, from the consistency of processing, never wore off, and is one of the things I still miss most even today.

 

[MurrayMinchin]

Favourite past project was in the early 1990's photographing the coast of BC, Canada, for six months by sea kayak using a Wista 4x5 field camera.

I paddled a double kayak (the front cockpit held my camera gear, a big tent, and a big food box) and my wife paddled a single kayak. We broke the trip into 3 two month sections; two months in the winter, two months in the spring, and two months in late summer/early fall. Produced a show that traveled through northern BC communities, but that was as far as I took it. Have no website. No Flickr account. No self promotion. Was, and still am, satisfied on a private path toward clarifying personal vision and refining darkroom techniques.

Current project is bridging the 15th and 21st centuries by learning polymer photogravure. I retire in less than a year, so will have time to devote to the project...until then I'm picking away at the edges of it. Sometimes the work and effort ahead causes butterflies in my stomach. A good sign, I believe!

If the gravures resonate the way I think they will, it'll be time to do see where my work lands in the scheme of things and take them south to be seen.

 

[Luckless]

I like filtering my photography work through the lens of various projects, even if some have slightly overlapping goals or subject matter. Projects are great for organization and analyzing my work to help me decide how to improve or change things as I work.

Some of my current favorite projects have been:
- Photographing roller derby on film. Had its share of pros and cons compared to the digital work I normally used for it. On the fence for if I would continue to expand on it in the future. [in part due to having moved across country and just never got back into the community out here.]
- A medium format Macro photography project I had been working on over my lunch breaks at work during the summer. I enjoyed stepping away from my day job for a few minutes each day to see what I could find.

I am in the process of defining a project for the new year with a focus on getting more use out of my 4x5 press camera, but that is still rather up in the air and not well focused yet.